Animal Cognition

About this book

First published in 1984. With this volume we initiate a series of books in comparative cognition and neuroscience. The presentations at the Harry Frank Guggenheim Conference, June 2-4, 1982, out of which the present volume grew, showed that this field of enquiry into cognitive functioning and its neural basis had reached maturity.

Contents

Preface

I. COGNITION IN ANIMALS AND HUMANS
1. Animal Cognition
2. Contributions of Animal Memory to the Interpretation of Animal Learning
3. Animal Intelligence: Understanding the Minds of Animals Through Their Behavioral Ambassadors
4. The Road from Behaviorism to Rationalism

II. WORKING MEMORY
5. Representations in Pigeon Working Memory
6. Rehearsal in Pigeon Short-Term Memory
7. Some Problems for a Theory of Working Memory
8. How Expectancies Guide Behavior
9. Cognitive Processes in Cebus Monkeys

III. SEQUENCE MEMORY
10. Working Memory and Serial Patterns
11. Cognitive Processing of Pitch and Rhythm Structures by Birds
12. Order Competencies in Animals: Models for the Delayed Sequence Discrimination Task
13. Self Reports by Rats of the Temporal Patterning of Their Behavior: A Dissociation Between Tacit Knowledge and Knowledge

IV. CONCEPT FORMATION AND PROCESSING OF COMPLEX STIMULI
14. Objects, Categories, and Discriminative Stimuli
15. In What Sense Do Pigeons Learn Concepts?
16. Form Recognition in Pigeons
17. Acquisition of Functional Symbol Usage in Apes and Children
18. Absence As Information: Some Implications For Learning, Performance, and Representational Processes
19. Do Pigeons Decompose Stimulus Compounds?

V. JUDGMENTS OF SIMILARITY AND DIFFERENCE
20. Pigeon and Monkey Serial Probe Recognition: Acquisition, Strategies, and Serial Position Effects
21. Serial Position Effects and Rehearsal in Primate Visual Memory
22. Cognitive Factors in Conditional Learning by Pigeons

VI. SPACE, TIME, AND NUMBER
23. Testing the Geometric Power of an Animal's Spatial Representation
24. Some Issues in Animal Spatial Memory
25. The Numerical Attribute of Stimuli
26. Sources of Variance in an Information Processing Theory of Timing

VII. EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT
27. The Ecology and Brain of Two-Handed Bipedalism: An Analytic, Cognitive, and Evolutionary Assessment
28. The Cache-Recovery System as an Example of Memory Capabilities in Clark's Nutcracker
29. Adaptation and Cognition: Knowing What Comes Naturally
30. Ontogenetic Differences in the Processing of Multi-element Stimuli
31. The Evolution of Cognition in Primates: A Comparative Perspective

VIII. NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL APPROACHES
32. Common Components of Information Processing Underlying Memory Disorders in Humans and Animals
33. The Hippocampus as an Interface Between Cognition and Emotion
34. Brain Systems and Cognitive Learning Processes

Author Index
Subject Index

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